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arraign

[uh-reyn] / əˈreɪn /
VERB
bring into court for charges
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O’Connor said federal law and rules of criminal procedure “require this Court to publicly arraign Boeing and permit the crime victims’ representatives to be heard at or in advance of the proceeding.”

From Washington Post Jan. 19, 2023

In most circumstances, prosecutors have 48 hours to arraign a person in custody, said Louis Shapiro, a well-known defense lawyer in California.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 18, 2022

The prosecutor noted the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic could put a snag in efforts to arraign Schulte on the new charges and start his retrial as soon as possible, however.

From Washington Times May 30, 2020

Hägglund wants to arraign capitalism for a similar asceticism.

From The New Yorker May 13, 2019

The "Saturday Review" has been unswerving in its passionate hostility to him, and has even gone so far as to arraign his personal integrity as a chronicler.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid echoes of the ominous thunderclap of the Faubus election victory in Arkansas, Author Dabbs speaks in a deceptively small voice, but arraigns himself no less harshly than his neighbors.

From Time Magazine Archive

It loosely and libelously arraigns Canada Packers Ltd.,

From Time Magazine Archive

These "chevaliers of the lash" he arraigns with a rhetoric compared to which Sumner's and Phillip's words were pale.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

But here comes an American Catholic and arraigns Protestant doctrine at the tribunal of American liberty.

From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Rios was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in San Fernando court, but was not taken from the jail to the courthouse because of a medical event.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

Julie Hanway Molina, 56, was arrested at her Aliso Viejo home and is expected to be arraigned Thursday in U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

He hadn’t been arraigned by Friday evening, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Juin was arraigned late Thursday and released on a $2 million bond.

From MarketWatch May 29, 2026

In a normal situation, Lima said, they would have been arraigned properly, given a phone call and an attorney, and would have been out on bail within days.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

“It’s been arraigning — I mean, raining,” Mr. Conway tweeted.

From Washington Times Sep. 12, 2022

Dr Mehmood says there aren't enough police available to "handle all these cases efficiently and judiciously, without arraigning innocent people to complete paperwork and save their jobs".

From BBC Mar. 12, 2020

It is hard to resist the conclusion that Garner, in full maternal mode, is arraigning him for not being more of a man.

From The New Yorker Dec. 4, 2016

Another positive development involves arraigning and prosecuting poachers in courts in the main cities, which are considered less susceptible to corruption than their local counterparts.

From National Geographic Dec. 10, 2015

Swift to the shore she flies, complaining; The tempest to her pray'r is deaf; When lo! that orb she's so arraigning, Shines forth, and shows her lover safe.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter




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